OREANDA-NEWS. Prime Minister Juha Sipilä has appointed a working group to address the inequality issues. The task of the working group is to search for new practices and means to halt the social segregation which has continued for quite some time. This will take place within the budget framework and without increasing public expenditure.

The aim is to secure the conditions for all people living in Finland to make it in the society and to contribute to making Finland into a country where equality and non-discrimination are respected. The working group is chaired by Professor of Sociology Juho Saari.  

Reaching the objective requires reallocation of the available public resources and reassessment of the regulation. Cross-sectoral policy objectives must be further specified from the perspective of mitigating inequality.

Special attention is to be drawn to early childhood education, reconciliation of family and working life, education, interfaces between work, unemployment and exclusion from labour force, housing, overindebtedness and immigration.